Not draw, the rules for unplayed matche are mostly based on score and activity in ranked games (the objective is to let people play).

But yes, to make things not slow I give 2 days, so tomorrow 23.59 CET, (that should be plently for midly active players but still giving time for real life setbacks) then I set the games and we move on.

I'm going to give the victory by rules to mrchirs. Since he played on the 28.07 and 28.09 . The opponent too ( Gadgedroch) but mrchris had an higher max score in those two days. I wonder why gadgedroch did not push private games (or even why chris did not do it).

I definitely think it depends on what the players want, I'm by no means am going to push it. Still though, if anything, I could place the deadlines in between your deadlines (so if you are doing 2 day deadlines, my first deadline is the 3rd day from the start and then are two days for each)

Definitely I am considering making my own tournaments, although I'm currently bouncing between programming a game engine that I'm turning into a music player, programming a phone app that is for a minor company between me and 2 of my friends, a summer school class that ends August 3rd, actually trying to develop my AIs, that math problem that I occasionally return to, and actually trying to get me some free time while living on my own and being currently jobless and technically homeless (this is the main reason I haven't read a single Russian post in a while and why I'm not going to respond to the physics question thread I started). If anything, I won't start something of my own until summer school ends.

As for the alternate pairs, I pretty much expected that and was being hopeful, but I won't even be surprised that they use different algorithms and judge seeding differently or anything like that. It would just be interesting to see how different they become